Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tokyo's live-wire, fast-growing Yominri, listed among the world's "great newspapers" in an Editor & Publisher survey, specializes in foreign news, spends heavily for scoops. Last week Yominri carried an exclusive story of eight Soviet Army officers in the Far East who decided to follow the example of two who recently escaped by airplane to Estonia, saying they had fled to avoid a purge in which hundreds of Soviet Army & Air Force officers are being secretly executed. According to Yominri, the plane in which the eight fled was chased by Soviet Secret Political Police aircraft...
...Considered sponsoring a program of junking jalopies. Last month the automobile industry got together National Used Car Exchange Week. This got rid of some 60,000 used cars, but dealers' lots are still glutted. On Franklin Roosevelt's desk last week lay the results of a Federal survey of dealer opinions on the problem, most of them advocating some sort of scrapping program with Federal funds or sponsorship...
...learn about its effects that practically every issue of every medical journal has referred to it. Several months ago, following the deaths of two score Southerners who had taken an "elixir" of sulfanilamide & diethylene glycol (TIME, Dec. 20, et ante), the Journal of the American Medical Association published a survey of sulfanilamide's uses and dangers. But so many new discoveries have occurred that the New England Journal of Medicine had Dr. Maurice A. Schnitker of Harvard's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital make a new survey, which it published last fortnight. Its prime points...
...list of institutions Americans think are "most in need of reform," the FORTUNE Quarterly Survey this week put labor unions first. Reforming unions was twice as important as reforming public utilities or stock exchanges, ten times as important as reforming the Supreme Court, even 35.6% of factory labor put union reform first. Among executives, 52.9% put it out in front...
Head of this survey is burly Dr. Arthur James Todd, chairman of Northwestern's department of sociology and anthropology, whose personal pastimes are painting and badminton. This week he published a 176-page report on commercial recreation, the most exhaustive study ever made in the U. S. of what people do clandestinely and publicly with their spare time...